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spider-mn · 2 months

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oh yeah, hyperfixation

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spider-mn · 2 months

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i thought i'd share some of my favourite video essays on my favourite topic ‒ superheroes! (sorry for the lack of marvel, i don't go there)

the golem and the jewish superhero

how a superhero theme works

how marvel drama created the teen titans

how superman fought the kkk… for real!

the incredibles: the art of supervillain monologues

is batman a superhero or just a hero?

is power-worship intrinsic to superhero stories?

the killing joke movie and the problem with comics

the people vs clark kent + superhero follow up

the philosophy of sidekicks, what even are they?

superheroes & 9/11: the anxiety of modern politics

superman, and the utility of strength

superman: the world's most famous climate refugee

superman's uncomfortable history with nuclear weapons

vigilantes, retribution, and the pursuit of meaningful justice

we could be queeroes

why colorism in comics is a problem (& not just in new mutants)

why the cynical superhero isn't that interesting

a world of gothic horror: the problem with modern batman stories

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spider-mn · 2 months

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no no look the other day it was a joke but i’m serious when i say that linda and wally are orpheus and eurydice

like you know the myth right? that eurydice died and went to hell and orpheus convinced to hades to let her follow him back to the land of the living, with the only condition that he had to have trust and never look back at her until they were both out of hell?

yeah well. think of wally being lost on the speedforce and think of how linda has to firmly believe and have trust that he will come back

and of course there are times when she’s afraid or she has doubts or her certainty will flinch, and these are the times where wally loses his possibility of coming back,

but at the end of day if she has the strenght to not let the hardships bring her faith down

she will bring him back. be his beacon and the one who leads him out of hell the speedforce.

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spider-mn · 2 months

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Wally West twin baby carrier fanart send post

#wally west #flashfam #dc comics #jai west #irey west #fanart

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spider-mn · 2 months

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Green comrades ☭

Wally: Once a thief, always a thief.

Pied Piper: "Property is theft."

Wally:

Flash (1987) #31

#wally west #dc comics

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spider-mn · 2 months

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I once called Wally’s rivalry with Bart sort of pathetic and sort of sad and I do stand by that

#wally west #bart allen #dc comics #flashfam

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spider-mn · 1 year

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full circle moments huh.........

vs

#wally west #bart allen #dc comics

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spider-mn · 1 year

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Hey!! sorry if youve already answered this but i couldnt find it anywhere! ive just started getting into dc comics and reading batfam mostly but i think young justice looks v cool so i was wondering if you had any recommendations of the best young justice comics or where to generally get started with them? Thank you!!

hi, welcome to comics! i haven’t really made a whole reading guide for the team, so you’re not missing anything or bothering me with this ask - i can absolutely help you get started with young justice. thanks for giving me an excuse to ramble about and recommend comics to read for my favourite team lol

i’m going to try to keep this as concise and easy to follow as i possibly can, but i know i’m going to make this longer than it needs to be, so it’s going under a read more.

Keep reading

#reading guide #tim drake #kon el #bart allen

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spider-mn · 1 year

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part of the reason I like ‘His Name is Booster’ is it allows Booster’s secret identity to function the way a celebrity’s does—not the way a traditional superhero’s does. I think I’ve mentioned before that I think Booster Gold v1 is an ingenue story, where Booster plays the naive baby-faced fish out of water dreaming of making it big and being a star despite the shady characters around every corner. And leaning into those very Hollywood tropes works well with the version of his name history where he used to be Mike Carter, but now he’s Booster Gold.

It’s very common for celebrities to change their name for marketability’s sake, sometimes legally changing their name and fully adopting the new one as their own, and I think that’s a fun lens to bring to Booster, especially since I think he was already going mostly if not entirely by Booster to everyone but his family by the time he was in college. The early reporting on his scandal refers to him as Michael “Booster” Carter, and Booster is what he’s called by Snake Eyes who, seemingly, has known Booster for a long time, likely well before he would have picked up Booster as a football nickname.

And so that leads to a lens where the division Booster faces as a superhero is not between Mike Carter and Booster Gold, but between Booster Gold™️—the perfectly styled, larger than life character people see on the news—and Booster the person, who is weird and neurotic and imperfect. That’s a much more relatable divide, especially in an age where so many people make their living by playing a version of themself for the audience through TikTok, Twitch, Only Fans, etc etc. It also allows Booster to be what he always should be, which is a different kind of hero who brings something unique to the table.

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spider-mn · 1 year

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Been thinking about young justice and wanted to make a silly little relationship chart (with extended cast). I’m sure I’m missing a few things, but I had fun! Truly the most team of all time.

#i dont remember my own tagging system give me a sec

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spider-mn · 1 year

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So, since my post about Duke Thomas, I realized that a lot of people don't know anything about the batfamily so this is basically my Cassandra Cain version. This list will include facts about her and some of her feats.

The first person to wear the Black Bat costume wasn't Cassandra, it was the Huntress

The first time she killed someone, she was 8 years old and she ripped a man's throat with her bare hands. This was, what led to her running away. She lived in the streets for 9 years after that.

Not only Cass wasn't able to speak or write, she also had issues understanding people. So after 9 years of not seeing her daughter, David Cain realized that her daughter was understanding him so he cried.

After her first kill, David Cain kneeled down to hug her. And similar to that, the first time she spoke to him he tried to hug her. But Cass, just as she had done when she was 8, slammed him through a wall.

David Cain had also trained Batman.

The first few months of being Batgirl, Cass only wanted to please Batman and prove to him that she could be useful. This brought out problems in the future.

Cass didn't know any form of verbal communication. But she knew, what Batman called, the language of violence. Where she communicated with using martial arts movements.

Cass and Azrael got along splendidly. They understood each other, and respected each other.

The first time Cass danced, it was to Azrael.

Cass, through out her time as Batgirl, was literally suicidal. She did not care about her safety at all. And not like in a self-sacrifical way. It was borderline suicidal.

She had nightmares every single night, during the few months she became Batgirl.

Cass wasn't tought how to fight with an escrima, so Bruce thought her. She learned it in 5 minutes.

Barbara encouraged Cass to learn the alphabet but she honestly couldn't care less. All Cass wanted to do was fight.

During a rescue mission Cass couldn't pick a door's lock. So she kicked through a wall.

During the first few months of Cass being Batgirl, Bruce observed her very closely. And concluded that she was literally perfect.

When you read her comics, you realize that she does not have any thinking bubbles. That's because she didn't think. She only focused on fighting, and that's why she was so deadly. But after an encounter with a meta, the meta changed her and she started to understand and actually speak both internally and externally. This caused problems however, because she couldn't focus on fighting. So she kind of lost her ability to read people. Cass had to relearn it.

Cass, to scare a criminal, stopped his heart for a few seconds.